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Posted by Meat Plow on October 9, 2007, 2:23 pm
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:21:51 -0400, Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
> HeyBub wrote:
>> Don't put the dish where you need a ladder to access it.
>>
>> Mount the dish on a 6' pole anchored to the ground like a fence post. Or
>> bolt to a deck railing. Easier to adjust, easier to remove snow, easier to
>> take down.
>>
>> The difference between 6' and 16' compared to 25,000 miles is insignificant.
>
>
> Mine is on a post in the back yard, just as you've suggested. However, I've
had
> to trim a hell of a lot of vegetation out of the way to keep a clear view of
the
> bird. Had I mounted it up on the back of the house I probably wouldn't have
had
> to do any of that.
>
> One particular annoyance was losing the signal in the rain. Not rain fade,
mind
> you... the water would weigh down branches and then they'd droop down in front
> of the dish. It wasn't always obvious which one was the offender and you had
to
> go out in the rain to fix it. If you waited until it stopped raining then the
> branch would dry and spring back to its normal innocent position. A real
PITA.
> I finally fixed it permanently by cutting the whole damned tree down. No more
> signal loss in all but the most torrential of downpours.
I've seen dishes installed looking /through/ roofs on houses with a high
pitch roofs. Often wondered how bad the signal suffered during a downpour
on these installs. Mine looks through a large tree about 100 yards away
and I suffer signal loss during severe storms in the summer.
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